When Will Nigeria’s Higher Institutions Embrace Open Book Exam?, By Olabisi Deji-Folutile
Why should our higher institutions be having problems with exams malpractice? If these schools set the right questions, it would be almost impossible to cheat during exams. It is difficult to cheat when exam questions task students’ creativity, assimilation and analytical prowesses. Last Wednesday, the authorities of The Polytechnic, Ibadan,…
AfCFTA: On the Path To “The Africa We Want”, By Nabila Okino
It is estimated that the success of the AfCFTA will be to connect billion people and create a $ trillion economic bloc. It would create an expanded market for African goods and services, integrate national markets to regional markets, leading to economic diversification, structural transformation and the enhancement of human…
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Mayne David-West At 70, By Dele Agekameh
At work and leisure, David-West’s humaneness to peers and underlings is infectious: a warm, regal, confident man with reassuring calm, he brings out the best in his closest co-workers and associates. David-West speaks his mind without sacrificing honesty or empathy. That takes a lot of courage and discipline. There are…
Osoba’s Cold Wars and Last Laugh, By Louis Odion
For the Akinrogun of Egbaland, there is surely more to a name. With “Olusegun” translating roughly as “the conqueror”, there can be no better evidence of a predestination to prevail over adversaries. That steely durability could only have resulted from a fortitude steeped in a deep spiritualism cultivated early in…
A New Cold War In Africa, By Mehari Maru
If the wants to compete with China on the continent, it should do so in good faith. It can gain a competitive advantage by offering African countries better, more credible and principled alternatives to those put forward by China. But that can only happen if the develops a strategy that…
Buhari’s Zero-Sum Politics, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
It bears telling that the give-and-take that used to be a constant in our politics has been exchanged in favour of the Daura Doctrine - of work with those you know, work with incompetent people as long as they are loyal to the identity agenda and look away if and…
Nduka Obaigbena At 60: A Note of Appreciation To ‘The Duke’, By Jide Ojo
I that ‘The Duke’ loves giving the youth opportunity to excel. Many of our reporters, producers and newscasters are in their 20s and 30s. He is also an equal opportunity employer with a gender-balanced team. One other thing I like about the prince from Delta State is his high standards.…
Foreclosing Visa-Free Entry: In Defence of South Africa, By Chris Adetayo
Ultimately, the solution to our angst lies inwards. We must get our acts right, here at Until we get our acts right to the point where our people have more hope in this country than elsewhere; where our citizens will not risk life and limb to cross the Mediterranean in…
Cross-Country Grazing In 2019: Sheer Barbarism!, By Ugoji Egbujo
A man sets out with his cattle and roams from Sokoto to Calabar. It’s the culture he knows. He wanders over 1500 kilometres because he has to feed his cattle. He withers, his cattle shrivels. He is unaware of the other man, his professional colleague in Brazil or India. He…
Revamping Buhari’s Shambolic Foreign Policy, By Femi Aribisala
What we need to do therefore is to invest in Nigerians and then use our foreign policy to promote the Nigerian. Foreigners already know that Nigerians are energetic, enterprising and resourceful. Let us build on this from inside out, then leverage on it in our foreign policy. Nigeria’s foreign policy…
